FLASHBACK: Public Laws of the U.S. of A. passed by the 59th Congress, Session II. The Expatriation Act of March 2, 1907 [CH 2534, Sec. 3]. Any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband, i.e., she lost her American citizenship!

Public Laws of the U.S. of A. passed by the 67th Congress, Session II. The Cable Act, AKA the “Married Women’s Independent Nationality Act”/“Married Women’s Act”) enacted September 22, 1922. [Ch. 411… An American woman will not have her citizenship taken away if she marries an immigrant unless he is an alien ineligible to citizenship….

Any woman who had lost her American citizenship through marriage to an alien eligible for citizenship was consequently allowed to apply to be repatriated.

Curated by Haifa Bint-Kadi and sponsored by the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, the work in this group exhibit presented the artists’ perspectives on building bridges and fighting hate, negative stereotyping and prejudice.

Among the work exhibited was Artist susan c. dessel’s Installation PIECES OF PEACE: thirty-six hand carved Olivewood pieces with handwritten excerpts from the Oslo Peace Accords.

Martha Gruening Bibliography POSTED. Dessel’s BIBLIOGRAPHY based on her research as a Frankel Fellow on the life and works of Martha Gruening — suffragist, civil rights activist, journalist, lawyer… — is now posted on University of Michigan Library’s DEEPBLUE website. See LINKS page under “Academic Blogs, Publications, Links to Artist Talks”.